Jungjingong Gwangju Headquarters Recruiting Participating Companies for Air and Sea Freight Cost Compensation Project

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Jin-hyung] The Gwangju Regional Headquarters of the Small and Medium Business Corporation (Head Park Hong-ju) is recruiting additional participating companies for the 'Aviation and Maritime Freight Compensation Project due to COVID-19' to resolve logistics difficulties for small and medium enterprises until the 10th of next month.

The recruitment scale is approximately 750 companies in total, with 500 companies for air freight and 250 companies for maritime freight, and overlapping support for air and maritime freight is not allowed.

The support target is companies engaged in e-commerce that incurred air transportation costs of 1 million KRW or more or maritime transportation costs of 300,000 KRW or more from July to September this year.

Support is provided differentially according to the amount of shipping costs used during the period and the support rate by section. Companies can receive up to 5 million KRW for air freight and up to 2 million KRW for maritime freight.

Park Hong-ju, head of the Gwangju Regional Headquarters of the Small and Medium Business Corporation, stated, "As uncertainty in export logistics increases, small and medium enterprises targeting the year-end shopping season in the North American and European markets are advancing their export shipment deliveries earlier than usual. We will strive to help our export companies maintain competitiveness in the global e-commerce market by reducing logistics costs."

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